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Lexicography in Gabon : a survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper traces the historical development of lexicography in Gabon. Gabon, like most African countries, is multilingual. The recent inventories of languages spoken in Gabon are those established by Jacquot (1978) and Kwenzi-Mikala (1998). According to
Mavoungou, Paul Achille   +1 more
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A Bibliography of the Tehnička enciklopedija (1963−97)

open access: yesStudia Lexicographica, 2019
The bibliography encompasses all articles published in the 13-volume Tehnička enciklopedija (Encyclopaedia of Technology) of the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography in the 1963–1997 period.
Iva Klobučar Srbić   +2 more
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An analysis of the use of Croatian exonyms in regard to the characteristics of a geographical feature

open access: yesStudia Lexicographica, 2020
The use of exonyms is one of the earliest challenges faced by experts who deal with geographical names on an international level. The prevalent view is that exonyms hinder international communication and their use should therefore be reduced.
Ivana Crljenko
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Andrija Štampar’s actions in combating infectious diseases during World War I (1914–1918)

open access: yesStudia Lexicographica, 2023
This paper presents the actions of Andrija Štampar during World War I (1914–1918) in combating infectious diseases in Banal Croatia. It illustrates how the widespread occurrence of infectious diseases during World War I, typical of unhygienic wartime ...
Filip Katanić, Vlatka Dugački
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Lexical Syllabus in Elementary and Secondary Education: Construction and Implementation

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Nonnative language users operate with significantly limited vocabularies compared to native speakers, particularly when the language is learnt in school contexts. This paper demonstrates how empirical research on vocabulary learning combined with experience in teaching and curricula design has informed the principled construction of a lexical ...
Batia Laufer
wiley   +1 more source

‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

Natural Semantic Metalanguage and lexicography

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter gives perspectives on meaning description in lexicography from the standpoint of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to linguistics, which among contemporary approaches to linguistics can claim the longest and most serious ...
Cliff Goddard, Goddard, Cliff
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A Life Spent in Political Geography, Radovan Pavić (Delnice, 30 June 1933 – Zagreb, 4 May 2020)

open access: yesKartografija i Geoinformacije, 2020
In early May, Radovan Pavić, a full professor at the University of Zagreb, died at the age of 87. The news of his death was mentioned in several electronic publications, and suitable tributes were published on the web pages of the institutions in which ...
Klemenčić Mladen
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Tewdwr: Eponymous Ancestor of the Tudor Dynasty

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The standard derivation of the dynastic name Tudor from Welsh Tudur, surname of the grandfather of Henry VII, is problematic on phonological grounds, as well as the fact that Tudur was never used as a surname by Henry himself, being attributed to him only by his enemies with implication of lowly origins.
DAFYDD JOHNSTON
wiley   +1 more source

Latvian and Lithuanian lexicography - historical comparison (17th to 20th century): Presented at Eastern European and Other Lexicography session [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Both Latvian and Lithuanian lexicography started with multilingual dictionaries at approximately the same time (trilingual Polish-Latin-Lithuanian dictionary in 1620 and German-Latvian dictionary in 1638).
Veisbergs, Andrejs
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